Re: OT: Socialism (WAS: Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 22, 2003, 21:33 |
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:29:30PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> I was thinking of money in the sense of "symbolic" money; notes, coins worth
> more (or less) than their metal worth, electronic money, and so forth.
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> Andreas
The fact that the government prints the money does not mean that they
therefore own the wealth it represents. Big, big difference.
Governments don't *own* anything. They are custodians of things which
belong to the governed.
-Mark
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